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Khoros Service
Formerly Spredfast + Lithium

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What is Khoros Service?

Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through bots…

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What is Khoros Service?

Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through…

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Product Details

What is Khoros Service?

Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through bots and human agents.


Customer inquiries and support-related conversations can be routed and prioritized based on a variety of parameters, and the robust agent desktop solution allows agents to efficiently manage conversations, both in real-time and asynchronously. The Agent Assist feature offers in-the-moment content and responses to help agents respond faster and with better results. The bot and automation builder tool allows conversations to be automated using AI and automated workflows. Users can build customized dashboards with built-in analytics, surfacing KPIs that are most meaningful to them.


Key benefits include:


Improves customer experiences while driving agent efficiency

Engages customers in their channel of choice–SMS, messaging, social, chat, in-app, email, voice–providing complete omnichannel coverage. Khoros simplifies agent workflow with a single desktop, unified customer profiles, and AI-powered support, while automated analysis of sentiment and customizable dashboards help optimize team performance and customer satisfaction.


Increases efficiencies through automation

Centralizes automated experiences across systems, applications, and channels in one platform to streamline customer interactions. By harnessing Natural Language Processing (NLP), it can reduce call volume with conversational bots across multiple channels, while IVR redirection and AI orchestration ensure efficient customer service.


Accelerates resolution to delight customers

Creates a hub for customers to connect with experts, learn, and get answers to their questions at any time, in any region. Users can deflect up to 80% of calls and customer inquiries, potentially saving brands millions in annual support costs.


Khoros Service Features

  • Supported: Seamlessly transitions from public to private messaging channels
  • Supported: Configurable proactive web chat rules for welcome messages and chat visibility
  • Supported: Machine learning to automatically filter for sentiment, actionability, and consumer intent
  • Supported: Keeps agents focused with a single, prioritized chat queue with AI-powered responses, knowledge, and step-by-step guides
  • Supported: Equips agents with holistic customer profiles, conversation history, & CRM data

Khoros Service Screenshots

Screenshot of a customer conversation in Agent view. Access past customer conversations and interactions in a single pane of glass.Screenshot of the analytic dashboard used to monitor key metrics across a service organization, such as available agents, time to first response, and agent handle time.Screenshot of Khoros Agent Assist. This feature provides agents with real-time recommendations, reducing the time needed to handle customer inquiries, deliver accurate resolutions, and train new agents.Screenshot of Work Queues under Rules and Routing. This allows admins to build rules around tagging to ensure timely and effective follow-up from agents.

Khoros Service Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesDetection and ingestion for engagements in over 100 languages, and native UI display for users in 31 languages.
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Frequently Asked Questions

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Reviewers rate Social Engagement highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Khoros Service are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Khoros Service Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)10%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)90%
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Khoros Customer Support

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 11, 2019
SC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Service
1 year of experience
It is primarily used by our Customer Support Team to quickly connect with our consumers to address issues and direct people to our ticketing system.
  • Great at streamlining conversations for quick responses.
  • Assigning conversations to support reps allows for timely customer care.
Cons
  • Labels and tags can be confusing.
  • Dashboard setup can be challenging and time-consuming.
Khoros Care is well-suited for companies with large online communities and/or support teams. They will find great use in its team management. It provides a quick solution to engage with your followers to address issues and build brand trust.

Efficient and Scalable Customer Support

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 05, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Service
4 years of experience
In my organization we use Khoros Service to manage customer support. It is useful because it centralize all the interactions in one platform across social media, email, and chat. Moreover with the AI automation and the CRM integration we manage queries faster and more effectively. The collaboration and analytics tools platforms help us to enhance the communication among team to monitor the performance and to ensure a personalized service.
  • Automatic response to customer questions
  • Dashboards in real time
  • Unified inbox from different channels
Cons
  • Not so intuitive navigation sometimes
  • Export of data to other platforms
  • Mobile app not so elastic as the computer one
Khoros Service is a good tool for big organizations that manage a high volume of customer inquiries across multiple digital channels and that require a robust automation and detailed analytics.The tool is good in complex support environments with different teams. I think that it is less appropriate for small teams needing basic support without complex integrations or automation.

Looking for a Social Customer Support solution?

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 30, 2015
RT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Service
3 years of experience
We currently use LKhoros across various areas of the Organisation from Marketing teams to our Customer Support teams for different parts of the business. Our teams in different areas using Khoros work closely and using this platform allows greater collaboration and more seamless experience for our customers who contact us through various social streams and branded social accounts relating to different products and services.
  • Case Management and conversation focused. Agents work on conversations that are grouped by author, historic interactions are available at a fingertip so context is always available. Khoros removes the hassle of tracking multiple interactions with the same user across various social platforms and presents all interactions as conversations.
  • Ownership, agents assign a conversation to themselves when selecting it, this removes confusion. Only one agent can be assigned to a conversation at a time, once the conversation has been assigned (selected) it is removed from the queue for all other agents so we avoid duplication of work. The conversation then stays with that agent until they log out or close the conversation.
  • Reporting, Analysis, and routing. For the first time, we can categorize across all social support streams and route content to various work queues. This allows our operations team to work more effectively and try different approaches similar to that of a voice-based contact center. Looking for the best way to effectively distribute and manage workloads.
  • Scalability - Khoros scales extremely well. We've seen growth across various social channels over time, in some cases periods of significant growth which have lead to increases in operational resources. We can easily scale the social support team on Khoros quickly to deal with this when required. The platform is extremely robust and can handle large volumes of content coming in near real-time.
Cons
  • Analytics are improving, this is a new area for Khoros as part of the ongoing development of the product. We've seen a lot of new analytics added recently. Dashboards and more granular reporting or customization of reporting is the only thing lacking.
  • Mobile Analytics missing, Social is a fast-moving space, some leadership and execs would love to have access to key metrics and analytics data through a smartphone while on the move to keep them on top of the latest trends and issues.
  • Dashboards. We're all about sharing data with the rest of the business, key business areas find this information useful and didn't know how useful it was until we provided a snapshot. To feed information from Analytics out to screens set up around different business areas gives that insight and brings in more collaboration.
Khoros is geared towards scaled social support, it can scale to quite a large size if required. Support is the key here, if you're looking for a tool to manage social interactions across multiple services then this is a great tool but it shines when it comes to this.

Khoros however is not a full-fledged marketing solution, this isn't an engagement tool for marketing, while there are features to support publishing and broadcast of content at scheduled intervals the focus is around support and Customer Relationship Management.

What are you currently looking to achieve?
Is it a social support tool you're looking for?
Are you looking to expand or grow your Social Customer Support strategy over time?

Khoros Care- Great but support needs improvement

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 29, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Service
1 year of experience
Khoros Care is being used for all of our community management across the whole organization. This includes any brand under our Enterprise umbrella, which is 5+ brands. Care addresses the below business problems:
  • Aggregating all of our comments and messages into one place.
  • Consistency of brand messaging and tone as one team manages the comments through Khoros Care.
  • Ability to escalate comments using various queues via email notifications.
  • Overall sight into all community management work being done across all of our channels.
  • Fantastic reporting to help us make business staffing decisions and watching for trends across our comments.
  • Capabilities- a partner with all of the major social networks which provide easy and seamless access.
  • Labels- custom labels which help us track trends and issues being discussed on our channels.
  • Reporting- volume, SLA time, highest volume by time and day, trending labels- almost anything we could need!
Cons
  • Support- their support team is not very knowledgeable and is slow to fix an issue.
  • Updating clients about platform outages.
  • Informing clients about changes in the platform and how it benefits us in the future.
Khoros is great:
  • If you are looking to streamline social media community management and not respond natively on the social media platform.
  • If you are looking for in-depth reporting on your community management team.
  • If you are looking for a line of sight into how your team is responding to comments and DMs across your channels.
My one hesitation is the Support team- we have random issues pop up often and they can take months to fix.

Functional Platform for moderators with great support.

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 18, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Service
5 years of experience
I use it to moderate our community forum. I find it easy to use, but there is always room for improvement. There have been about 1-2 minor enhancements in the five years I have used the platform. I use Khoros via Safari/Chrome. Performance 4/5, UI 2.5/5. It has the basic features I need to get my job done productively.
  • Support is always responsive.
  • Receiving Incoming data is pretty quick.
  • Responses are always published quickly.
Cons
  • The UI needs an overhaul; it feels very dated.
  • Ability to edit titles/tags natively in Khoros from linked community threads.
  • More editing capabilities, easier organizing of bookmarks/watching, and order tabs.
I am able to provide responses to incoming posts in a timely manner; the posts are published instantly with no issue. It would help to have multiple features for organizing content into user-defined sections for better management and visibility.
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